Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes About Luck

Quotes about: Luck

• Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Work, Bmw, Serendipity

• Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you increase the odds of serendipitous encounters-you gain exposure to the envelope of serendipity.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Hard Work, Opportunity, Odds

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.209, Random House

• ...maximize the serendipity around you.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Serendipity, Luck

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.204, Random House

• Those who were unlucky in life in spite of their skills would eventually rise. The lucky fool might have benefited from some luck in life; over the longer run he would slowly converge to the state of a less-lucky idiot. Each one would revert to his long-term properties.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Running, Skills, Long

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2008). “Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets”, p.58, Random House

• Luck is the grand equalizer.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Luck, Equalizer

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1071, Random House

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